The Electricity of Every Living Thing

The Electricity of Every Living Thing

A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to terms with an Asperger's diagnosis.

In August 2015, Katherine May set out to walk the 630-mile South We…

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